According to @business, Intel shares have surged after the company secured a series of high-profile backers, but its chip-making (foundry) operations remain loss-making. According to @business, the cash infusions have not resolved Intel’s core profitability problem in manufacturing, putting the sustainability of what @business frames as a roughly $50 billion stock rally at risk without a factory execution win. According to @business, the report does not cite any direct cryptocurrency impact, so traders should focus on semiconductor positioning, monitoring headlines on Intel margins, capex, and foundry turnaround timing as key catalysts.

According to @StockMKTNewz, Intel INTC just delivered a bullish session not seen in decades on September 18, 2025, indicating an unusually large upside day for the stock, source: @StockMKTNewz on X, Sep 18, 2025. Such outsized single-day advances are typically accompanied by elevated trading volume and volatility that widen near-term trading ranges and gap risk for momentum and mean-reversion setups, source: Karpoff 1987 The Relation Between Price Changes and Trading Volume; Lee and Swaminathan 2000 Price Momentum and Trading Volume. For crypto traders, stronger risk-on impulses from equities can spill over to digital assets as cross-market correlation with BTC and ETH has risen since 2020, raising transmission risk, source: International Monetary Fund blog Crypto Prices Move More in Sync With Stocks by Adrian, Iyer, and Mancini-Griffoli, January 2022.